Apple iChat Gets Tabs and iTunes Integration

[BigBlueBall News]

AppleInsider.com
October 7, 2004

The version of Apple’s iChat messaging software that will ship with Mac OS X Tiger will likely offer tabbed messaging in addition to iTunes tie-ins.

The next major reversion of Apple Computer’s popular iChat instant messenger software will play host to a plethora of new features, including some that have yet to appear in even the most recent builds of Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger," AppleInsider has learned.

Mimicking third party applications like Status Symbol and iChat Status, recent builds of iChat 3.0 have exposed limited interactivity with the company’s iTunes digital jukebox software. Via a new option in the iChat menu, users will be able to display the currently playing iTunes track as part of their iChat online status.

iChat 3.0 is due as part of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger in the first half of 2005. The software will also reportedly deliver improved video quality, three-way video chat, extended audio conferencing, and Jabber support.

Read more at AppleInsider.com

[Zargeus]

Apple released this news 6 months ago, glad to see Mac users get up to date news here :)

[Jeff]

Yeah, and if you check the date, you'll see that this was posted here six months ago. Glad to see you've been keeping up!

[Zargeus]

My bad. I didn't check the date. I assumed if it was under "Latest News" that it had just been posted.

[Jeff]

No problem. The news has been there for a while, but we just made the AIM News category a sub-forum two days ago. So it looks "new" even though it's not really.